预 yù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 页 — page, sheet, leaf
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
预言
yùyán
to predict; prophecy
Characters in this word
言 yán
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 言 — words, speech
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 专家根据这些数据预言明年雨水会更多。 Zhuānjiā gēnjù zhèxiē shùjù yùyán míngnián yǔshuǐ huì gèng duō. Based on this data, experts predict there will be even more rain next year.
- 谁也预言不了明天会发生什么事情。 Shéi yě yùyán bùliǎo míngtiān huì fāshēng shénme shìqing. No one can predict what will happen tomorrow.
- 古人把这个预言写进了书里，后来竟然实现了。 Gǔrén bǎ zhège yùyán xiě jìn le shū lǐ, hòulái jìngrán shíxiàn le. People long ago wrote this prophecy into a book, and later it actually came true.
Related words
- 预报 yùbào forecast
- 预防 yùfáng to prevent
- 预计 yùjì to expect; to estimate
- 预习 yùxí to prepare before class
- 预测 yùcè to predict
- 预订 yùdìng to reserve
- 干预 gānyù to interfere
- 预备 yùbèi to prepare
- 预期 yùqī expected; expectation
- 预定 yùdìng to book, to reserve
- 预料 yùliào to predict; prediction
- 预感 yùgǎn to have a premonition; premonition